Monday, July 23, 2007

FortiAnalyzer now supports ext3 File System

Starting from version 3.0 MR3 FortiAnalyzer supports ext3 file system in addition to Resier file system used before. EXT3FS provides much better stability and it is recommended to upgrade FS used on all FortiAnalyzer units. To do this you need to reformat disks or change RAID level which will cause all information to be erased.

Please check the Release Notes document before formatting disks as you will need to restore RVS Engine & Plugins afterwards. Also doing a backup before formatting disks is highly recommended.

Starting from MR4 you can also speed-up the FortiAnalyzer by indexing ext3 file system: this is done by "diagnose sys filesystem fsfix" CLI command. Please note that this command execution will reboot FortiAnalyzer and might take time.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Have you seen FirePlotter (www.fireplotter.com) for FortiGate? Thought you might want to comment on it in your Blog.